Screw upon a Screw: Sex Education in the Gilded Age
byAs you might imagine, this post is sexually explicit. You have been warned. When I started writing historical romance set in the Gilded Age, I…
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Married Love by Marie Stopes, the Book that Scandalized WWI Society
byThe war forced sexual matters to the forefront of society. Soldiers were sent to hospitals more often for venereal disease than bodily injury, young…
A Vest Pocket Guide to Brothels in 19th-Century New York
byI discovered this book earlier this year during one of my haphazard click-throughs on the New York Times website, and was very intrigued that…